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By Daniel Huss, October 11 2017 — University of Calgary geoscience professor Alan Hildebrandt and his research team are closing in on the locations of a meteorite that fell over British Columbia in early September. After a call to the media earlier this fall for footage of the meteor seen across Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C.,…

By Derrius Ivy, September 28 2017 — Life-sized rainbow bunnies, a 168-foot firey serpent, a giant toy claw and musical see-saws were just four of 14 attractions at the 2017 Beakerhead festival in Calgary from Sept. 13–17. The city-wide creations integrated art, science, engineering and entertainment to promote ingenuity and creativity. This year’s theme, “Snakes…

By Matt Hume, September 4 2017 — The fall semester is here and the days of summer music festivals are behind us. But before the paper cramming and midterm mania kicks off, there’s a festival of another sort ready to excite the Bill Nye in all of us. Going into its fifth year, Beakerhead is a…

By Jennifer Khil, June 29 2017 — Two researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) were published in the international scientific journal Nature for shaking up the evolutionary history of limbed animals. Jason Anderson, a UCVM professor, and Jason Pardo, a doctoral student supervised by Anderson, used data first collected by Anderson…

By Saima Asad, April 27 2017 — A University of Calgary professor was recently honoured with Pakistan’s highest national award — the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz — for inventing the “brain on a chip.” Naweed Syed is a professor in the department of cell biology and anatomy at the U of C. Born in Pakistan, he received his…

By Frank Finley, October 25 2016 — No, big-pharma is not conspiring to sterilize you. No, the government is not trying to mind-control the populace through flu vaccines. And no, fluoride in the water will not turn your brain to porridge. And yet, at a time when peer-reviewed papers are at our fingertips, so many…

By Fabian Mayer, March 29 2016 — In 2014, Ross Lockwood was finishing up his PhD in condensed matter physics at the University of Alberta. He was also living on fake Mars. Lockwood was part of a six-member team taking part in a HI-SEAS experiment. For four months the group lived in a NASA-built Mars…

Simran Kaler, March 1, 2016 — The lack of women in science, technology, engineering and math subjects is an ongoing problem. Women are discouraged from pursuing STEM fields, facing problems like harassment, discrimination and wage gaps. And this problem is present before university — grade 10 computer science classrooms right across the province can only…

By Scott Strasser, November 24 2015 — A students’ lounge for Faculty of Science students is still in the works and could open by fall 2016. Students’ Union science representatives and members of the Science Students’ Society (SSS) are submitting a joint Quality Money application of over $100,000 to fund the lounge’s construction. SSS president and…

By Susan Anderson, February 5 2015 — Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski will speak at the University of Calgary on Friday, Feb. 6. His talk is part of the biology department’s 30th annual Darwin Day this year celebrating Charles Darwin’s 206th birthday. Lenski has experimented on E. coli for 25 years, continuously growing cultures for over…